Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 042284302821
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 042284302821
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
6-CD box set. Sun Bear Concerts - documenting five complete solo performances by Keith Jarrett in Japan - counts as a milestone achievement in the history of jazz recording. As Down Beat wrote, on the occasion of the original release, Jarrett's improvisations are "the inventions of a giant, overpoweringly intimate in the way they can draw a listener in and hold him captive. Jarrett has once more stepped into the cave of his creative consciousness and brought to light music of startling power, majesty and warmth." Rich in incident and detail, the music first issued in 1978, revealed Jarrett as a player of limitless creativity, unique in his ability to find new forms in the moment, night after night. "These marathons showed Jarrett to be one of the greatest improvisers in jazz," Ian Carr wrote in his biography of the pianist, "with an apparently inexhaustible flow of rhythmic and melodic ideas, one of the most brilliant pianistic techniques of all, and the ability to project complex and profound feeling."
Tracklisting
John Surman
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano
Sebastian Rochford
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Fred Thomas & Matthieu Michel
Keith Jarrett
Mette Henriette
Keith Jarrett
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett